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I'm going to tell you a weight loss secret: Very few people ever lose weight and keep it off. And I'm not talking about the pictures you see in magazines or on TV.
You know all those diet centers? The high profile weight loss centers with celebrity endorsers and boxed up meals? I won't name names, but the big time weight loss centers; did you know that most of their revenue comes from repeat customers? Yep. Those centers cash in on people making a little bit of progress and then failing. That's how they make their money!
weight loss programs, weight loss meal plan, loose weight,
How much money do you think it takes to A) Hire a celebrity, and B) Pay for that TV airtime? The answer is obvious.
People lose weight, yes, in a rare circumstance they do. And that's when the diet center steps in and takes a snapshot (and credit) for the weight loss success. But here's the thing: very few keep the weight off. And chances are pretty good that someone who is in a "before and after" photo will gain all the weight back within a year's time.
Weight Loss Fact: It's rare for a person who struggles with his or her weight to get it off and keep it off.
Who's fooling whom? The weight loss centers exploit a person's success, but never give you the statistical facts. And hey, maybe you don't want to know the facts. Maybe you don't want to know the failure rate. Maybe you'd rather take a look at the weight loss "success stories" and hope that you can be one of them.
And you can. But why overpay for meals that they've packaged to sell? Those places have turned into glamorized grocery stores. Diet food? They keep sucking you in to pay extra for foods that you could go out and buy yourself, better quality and cheaper. They can justify the extra sticker price because if you look at Kristen over there in the latest print advertisement "look at me, I've lost 58 pounds." You're convinced!
There must be something to it. Yes, there is: Kristen could have done it without Jenny what's-her-names help. Those centers can only hope that people like Kristen step into their stores. They bank on people, women mostly, like Kristen who have lost a little confidence over the years and put on gradual weight.
They know the Kristens of the world are vulnerable. They know that if they can get enough Kristens to come in and lose weight that she'll be happy to endorse their products. They know that when believable girls like Kristen spread the word, that's like a cash register going "cha-ching" again and again.
So what's the solution? First, save your money. Second, realize that in order to lose weight you will need to rely on only one person. That's you. Begin by educating yourself on the different aspects of weight loss. More importantly begin examining yourself, your motivations. Think about where you've come from, and where you want to go from here.
If you want to lose a lot of weight, there are ways. You will need effort, but there are ways.


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Vintage Bow Blouse
Added Jan 29, 2013
by kihli
Zurich, Switzerland
I really find that classical blouses don't flatter me, so I was happy to find this vintage Simplicity pattern. I had to grade it down one size, but that wasn't much of a problem.
The blouse closes with buttons at the back, which isn't quite easy to do without any help but still possible.
For construction, I followed the vintage pattern instructions, which raised the question of why facings back then have not been interfaced themselves, but directly at the garment, whereas today it is always recommended to interface the facing itself. I hope to get the solution one day.
You can read more details on my blog: Marie in the cave
Material Notes
very lightweight wool
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Feb 19, 2013, 04.15 AMby baum
this blouse is so cute and you look great in it! I love the bows:)
Feb 16, 2013, 07.43 AMby yuicat
ellegant shape and beautifull color. I love it !!
Feb 12, 2013, 01.57 PMby iwannasew2
Hello. I think you may have sent me an email. I realized AFTER I put it in spam (didn't recognize the email address) that it was from you. I put it in my spam (checked from my desktop) and then tried to retrieve it from my phone and of course, the deletion was done there as well. So sorry! Next time, I'll know it was you. -JC
Feb 1, 2013, 10.11 AMby ladafl
I like your combination with jeans!
Jan 30, 2013, 10.39 PMby Gabriela Alejandra
so lovely!!!!!
Jan 30, 2013, 07.08 AMby leokadia
hallo Marie, sehr hübsch und vor allem sehr schön genäht! Die Farbe steht dir sehr gut und das "Teilchen" kannst du sehr vielseitig tragen; Gratulation!! viele Grüße leokadia
Jan 29, 2013, 11.38 PMby Mary Athey
Fab top. Love.the colour shape.and.the little bows. What a fab vintage pattern as well x
Jan 29, 2013, 10.14 PMby Vicki Williams
Really flattering and a great color for you.
Jan 29, 2013, 10.14 PMby Vicki Williams
Really flattering and a great color for you.
Jan 29, 2013, 10.12 PMby mkonieczki
Love this blouse! It suits you beautifully.
Jan 29, 2013, 10.05 PMby neveenkarnes
Very nice. Looks great on you!!
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As founder of the International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (IFFGD), Nancy J. Norton developed programs to increase awareness, education, and research of functional gastrointestinal disorders and develops relationships with the public and the medical community.
Since 1991 Ms. Norton and IFFGD co-founder William F. Norton have grown the organization from a grassroots group to a nonprofit organization with worldwide representation.
Ceciel T. Rooker is the Executive Director of IFFGD. Ms. Rooker has a long history of working to advance digestive health issues and a deep understanding of the needs of patients and families affected by functional GI and motility disorders. Prior to joining IFFGD in 2017, Ms. Rooker was the Executive Director of the Rome Foundation.
The governing body (Board of Directors) of IFFGD is representative of the general public we serve and includes physicians and healthcare professionals from various disciplines related to digestive health and incontinence, as well as non-medical professionals from legal and business fields.
Additionally, IFFGD has an Advisory Board that is made up of 60 medical professionals from various disciplines representing the USA and ten other countries. Many of these individuals are noted experts in the field of functional gastrointestinal disorders.
Nine physicians serve on the Editorial Board of our journal, Digestive Health Matters.
- Nancy Norton Honored with Annual Achievement Award
- Digestive Disease Research is a Critical Component in Improving Women's Health
- Nancy Norton Named to National Commission to Digestive Health
- Nancy Norton Named to NIH Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health
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The Lodge on Little St. Simons Island
St. Simons Island, GA 31522
912-638-7472 | 888-733-5774
Nature prevails on this pristine island where 10,000 acres are shared with no more than 32 guests at a time. Accessible only by boat, Little St. Simons Island unfolds its secrets to those eager to discover a bounty of natural wonders. Seven miles of private beaches meet acres of legendary moss-draped live oaks, glistening tidal creeks, and shimmering salt marshes, providing the setting for exciting activities or relaxation.
Guests enjoy interpretive tours, birding, kayaking, fishing, swimming, hiking and biking. Creature comforts include gracious accommodations, delicious regional cuisine and genuine Southern hospitality. This getaway is ideal for individuals, groups, families, reunions, retreats and business meetings.
The Lodge on Little St. Simons Island was voted No. 1 Resort in the Mainland U.S. by Condé Nast Traveler's Readers' Choice Awards 2007, "Gold List" by Conde Nast Traveler 2013, and No. 7 Resort in the South by Conde Nast Traveler's Readers' Choice Awards 2012.
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Known as the "father of electrical engineering," you probably know Michael Faraday is most famous for his contribution to the field of electromagnetism. His inventions include the first electric motor and the first electromagnetic generator. He also discovered the principles underlying electromagnetic induction and diamagnetism. You also probably know the unit of electrical capacitance is named the farad (symbol F) in his honor. But you may not know everything about Michael Faraday. Click


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Below you may find the list of Windows updates affecting OA provisioning.
The Operations Automation team uses the following testing and publishing method for Windows security updates.
All internal testing environments used by the QA and Development departments are configured to install all Windows security updates as they arrive. This is done using a pre-configured WSUS policy.
If any update affecting provisioning is found during these tests, it will be included in this KB.
If you install updates and they affect the live provisioning system, then a support case should be opened. The support team will analyze the case, and the update will be included in this KB article if it is determined to affect provisioning.
Please also refer to the Microsoft Windows Updates supported by OA article, which contains the list of Windows updates checked by OA QA and Development teams in the past, along with testing statuses.
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|KB description
|Issues found
|Jan, 2016
|January 2016 cumulative update 5.0.8308.945 for Lync Server 2013 Core Components
|Description: NormalizationRules in CsDialPlan still contains a phone number after it was removed from related user. Reason and How to fix: Not fixed.
|Dec, 2014
|December 2014 update for Windows Root Certificate Program in Windows
|Description: After update is installed, the installation and update of PA agents can lasts hour. Reason and How to fix: Remove KB3004394
|Sep 14, 2010
|MS10-066: Vulnerability in remote procedure call could allow remote code execution
|Description: After Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Security Patch MS10-066 is installed, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server User Administration tool stops functioning. Reason and How to fix: Refer to BlackBerry Knowledge Base article BlackBerry User Administration client commands fail after Microsoft Patch MS10-066 is installed.
|Oct 26, 2009
|MS09-056: Vulnerabilities in CryptoAPI could allow spoofing
|Description: After KB974571 (MS09-056: Vulnerabilities in CryptoAPI could allow spoofing) is installed on OCS nodes, services that are required by Communications Server are not started after you install the update and then restart a computer that is running Communications Server. Reason: CryptoAPI changed and services validation is broken. How to fix: Download and install OCSASNFix.exe as described in section "Resolution for these known issues" of the KB.
|Oct 26, 2009
|Windows Management Framework Core
|Description: After KB968930 (Windows Management Framework Core) is installed on the MPS node, some Hosted Exchange provisioning tasks fail with the error "A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'Alias.'" Reason: The updated PowerShell 2.0 does not accept the Alias parameter of the Set-mailboxcmdlet How to fix: Problem described in KB2087941 and fixed in Update Rollup 8 for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 4.5
|Aug 24, 2009
|Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2
|Description: Some Public Folders-related provisioning tasks fail after installing Exchange 2007 SP2 on MPS nodes. Reason: Property names were changed in Public folder-oriented cmd-lets used by provisioning tasks. How to fix: Do not install the SP2 on MPS node(s). Use previous latest version instead (SP1 with Rollups). The note has also bee added to the OA Hosted Exchange Deployment guide.
|Sep 10, 2009
|Update Rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1
|Description: Some providers enable non-secure POP3 and IMAP4 authentication for end-customers. In such configurations, the Rollup installation resets service settings and denies authentication using plain text. Reason: Default (more secure) authentication settings are applied to POP3/IMAP4 services during the KB installation. How to fix: If non-secure configuration is needed, call the following cmd-lets on CAS servers to fix it: `Set-PopSettings -LoginType PlainTextLogin Set-ImapSettings -LoginType PlainTextLogin`
Below is the list of other sources with HMC update testing statuses:
- Windows Update Compatibility tests by HMC team from Microsoft: HMC 4.0, HMC 4.5
- Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Knowledge Base Articles: HMC 3.5, HMC 4.0 and HMC 4.5. These articles outline the fixes and updates that have been tested by Microsoft and are certified to work with the respective HMC offerings.


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A feisty President Barack Obama traveled Friday to Liberty for what he called "a little trash talking" — about the Chiefs' 10-yards-or-less passing game.
Within minutes, though, it was clear he had an additional, more serious target in mind.
To cheering and applause from union autoworkers, the Democrat tore into Congress, demanding it fund the government and raise the debt ceiling without touching his signature accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act.
"We're not some banana republic," he told more than 1,000 at the new Ford stamping plant near Claycomo. "This is not a deadbeat nation. We don't run out on our tab."
Even as Obama flew to Missouri to make that case, though, the chances of a budget standoff grew. Just a few hours earlier, the Republican House easily passed a measure that would fund the government after Oct. 1 only while prohibiting any spending for Obamacare.
"The American people don't want the government shut down, and they don't want Obamacare," Speaker John Boehner said.
The president said he would not accept the condition.
"They don't like the Affordable Care Act. They'd rather have people not have health insurance. I'm happy to have that debate with them," he said. "But you don't have to threaten to blow the whole thing up just because you don't get your way."
Obama's speech came at the end of a two-hour visit to Missouri, his second trip to the western side of the state this summer.
Before his remarks, he toured the new $260 million stamping plant in Liberty, built — with state tax incentives — to provide parts for the Claycomo assembly plant nearby.
He met with plant workers and Ford CEO Alan Mulally, who demonstrated some of the high-tech metal-fabricating machinery.
The Ford plant is expanding because the demand for its trucks is up. The presidential visit was intended to highlight the rebound in automaking, a rebound helped in large measure by billions of dollars in federal loans awarded to car companiesother
than Ford.
"Five years ago, plants like this one were closing their doors," Obama said Friday. "Ford was standing on its own two feet, had made some smart decisions. But Alan will tell you, if GM and Chrysler had gone down, suppliers would go down. ... I refused to let that happen."
The Claycomo plant suffered a major blow in 2010 when Ford decided to move production of the Ford Escape to Louisville, Ky., without offering specifics about the plant's future.
But Missouri responded with tax incentives worth up to $150 million over 10 years, convincing Ford to expand. Gov. Jay Nixon, who helped fashion the package, welcomed Obama when he arrived at Kansas City International Airport and was in the audience for the speech.
Sen. Claire McCaskill and U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver traveled on Air Force One with Obama and listened to the speech. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Kansas City, Kan., Mayor Mark Holland and Kansas City Mayor Sly James were also on hand.
James praised the president's combative stance with Republicans in Congress.
"It's a call to arms again for middle class values," he said. "He's pumped up. He's ready to roll."
Obama's criticisms of congressional budget decisions appeared more aggressive than other recent speeches. He vowed again not to negotiate over the debt ceiling increase — the federal government is expected to run out of borrowing authority this fall.
"They're focused on politics," he said. "They're focused on trying to mess with me. They're not focused on you."
The debt ceiling problem is less immediate than the government funding bill. Without a compromise on a stopgap spending measure, a political standoff would shut down much of the government next month.
Typically, catch-all funding bills advance with bipartisan support. But tea party members, adamantly opposed to spending for health care, pressured GOP leaders to add a provision to cripple the health care law.
"Obamacare is an unmitigated, disastrous train wreck," Rep. Sam Graves, a Missouri Republican, said in a statement after the House vote Friday. "The House demonstrated leadership in voting to both fund the federal government and remove the country's largest obstacle to job creation and economic growth."
The funding measure moves to the Senate. Democrats there are expected to try to remove the Obamacare language and send the bill back to the House.
The White House says Obama will veto the bill if it includes the anti-Obamacare provision.
The speech Friday centered on the budget battles and the health care law, but it had lighter moments as well.
Obama told the crowd he had noticed the Kansas City Chiefs' 3-0 start.
"When I said I was flying into Kansas City to see an incredible success story in action, I did not think I was going to be talking about the Chiefs," he said.
"Before you get carried away, I just want to point out that the Bears are 2-0... and we're actually able to pass more than 10 yards."
The crowd responded with laughter and a few boos.
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Anna Kendrick's challenging Perfect Pitch
Anna Kendrick found 'Perfect Pitch' ''challenging''.
The 'Up in the Air' actress found it hard to keep up when filming the musical movie, especially a scene which sees two rival acapella groups - one all girls and the other all boys - battle it out in a campus competition.
She said: ''It definitely was challenging. The scene in the riff-off when there's, like, four different groups and we're all jumping in ... there were so many moving parts and it was so hard to keep track of what we were doing, where we were in the scene, and to try and have this kind of flirty, semi-romantic through-line with Jesse [Skylar Astin] through that scene.''
The 27-year-old star has already had experience in musicals, with her first ever acting role being Dinah in Broadway's 'High Society' when she was just 12, but she praised 'Perfect Pitch' director Jason Moore for helping the cast find their feet.
She added to BuzzineFilm.com: ''It was great to have somebody like Jason Moore, who directed 'Avenue Q', as the captain of the ship, because he comes from a musical background and he definitely has a film director's mind as well.
''We definitely relied on him a lot to make sure that all those moving parts were gelling and we were headed in the right direction.''
Anna plays university freshman Beca, who joins her school's all-girl acapella group The Bellas to help them take on boy band Treble Makers in a campus competition. The groups perform songs such as Kelly Clarkson's 'Since U Been Gone' and 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' by Simple Minds.
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Amid several other activities to raise money for water sanitation projects in Nicaragua and kitchen building in Uganda I am hosting an open house this Saturday 28th January where there will be LOADS of coffee and cake. I am paying for my own flights, accommodation etc so all the money raised will go directly to charity.
So if you are up for some cake to eat and a chat before or after your run then please pop by my house this Saturday – see invitation attached!
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I've spent the past 2 days in Los Angeles…working on a few projects, as well as taping a segment for Marie Osmond's new show, Marie. They were so much fun and wonderful to work with, and are thrilled about One-Dish Dinners and helping make dinner simpler and easier for you. I'm headed home tomorrow, then a quick trip to Houston, and finally back home with my babies. OK, not really babies…but they'll always be babies, right?
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Sharlotte Gjestvang Sawyer
Sharlotte Gjestvang Sawyer, age 70, of Lono passed away Friday, August 16, 2013.
Visitation will be Sunday, August 18 from 6:00-8:00pm at Regency Funeral Home in Malvern.
Funeral Service will be Monday, August 19 at 10:00am at Regency Funeral Home with Brother Gene Fulcher and Will Wallace officiating. Memorials can me made to South Main Missionary Baptist Church, 2027 South Main Street, Malvern, AR 72104.
Arrangements are by Regency Funeral Home. You may sign the guest book at regencyfuneralhome.com.


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The U.S. economy will continue along its sluggish growth path this year, said Dennis Lockhart, president of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, on Tuesday. "I could be wrong, but I don't expect 2013 to be a breakout year," Lockhart said in a speech in Madrid, Spain, according to prepared remarks. Lockhart forecast the economy would grow this year at an annual rate of 2% and 2.5%. Although there are "hopeful signs," such as housing and the energy sector, consumers are still constrained by high debt, he said. The financial system remains in a gradual process of repair, he noted. And productivity growth has also slowed, Lockhart said. "Recently, it appears that much of the potential associated with company restructuring, headcount reduction, and costs cuts has already been exploited," Lockhart added.
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Danbury's Head Start wins top score from U.S.
DANBURY -- An American flag that once waved over the Capitol in Washington, D.C., hung on a new pole at the Head Start center on Foster Street on Monday.
It was a reward, in a way.
U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-Conn, unfurled the flag against a backdrop of children at play during an announcement Monday that Head Start of Northern Fairfield County had aced its recent federal review.
The federal preschool program for low-income clients serves 32 children from infants to 2-years-olds and 335 who are age 3 and 4, mainly from Danbury, but also from Bethel, Brookfield, Newtown, New Fairfield, Redding, Ridgefield and Sherman.
This is the second time the Danbury program has received a perfect score on its triennial review, though under much more challenging circumstances, said James Maloney, president of Connecticut Institute for Communities, which oversees the federal grant program.
Not only did the staff face the threats of cuts to federal, state and local funds, but the program moved from public school classrooms into a standalone facility last July with the majority of staff being new.
From March 30 to April 3, a team of eight federal monitors looked into the program, run by Monica Bevilacqua.
"Every three years, a team of eight comes to review everything from soup to nuts," Maloney said. "They spend days in each classroom, look at the health program, enrollment procedures, record keeping and family advocacy.
"To duplicate the marvelous scores for two cycles in a row is not impossible, but it is rare."
Head Start serves 267 3- and 4-year olds at its Foster Street center and 40 at the Laurel Gardens housing complex on Main Street. Of those, 40 are funded by a separate state program.
In addition, the Early Head Start program at Foster Street received a perfect score in its first year of a triennial review.
Esty, a supporter of early childhood initiatives in Washington, told the two dozen guests on hand Monday the program needs a team with good leadership so it can empower, support and equip children to succeed.
"It comes not just from instruction, but from the heart. It has to be modeled by great leaders," Esty said. "Two perfect scores is an extraordinary achievement.
"We know that school readiness programs work, and the best ones work extraordinarily well. They are effective in reducing the achievement gap, which in Connecticut is among the highest in the country," she said.
Esty said every dollar spent on preschool saves $9 later in extra academic help, prison or other costs.
"It's one of the best investments we can make, financially as well as morally," she said.
According to the report, Danbury's program scored nearly 6.1 on emotional support, compared the national average of under 6.
It scored nearly 6.2 on classroom support, compared to the national average of 5.6, and scored 3 on instructional support, compared to the national average of 2.7.
In addition, the local program out-scored national averages on teacher sensitivity, regard for student perspective, behavior management, productivity, instructional format, concept development, quality of feedback and language modeling.
"In every case, the scores were higher or substantially higher than the national average," Maloney said. "I think we can do better, since three-quarters of our staff only had six months of training."
Tom Saadi, a member of the Danbury City Council, was on hand with other council and city Board of Education members for the announcement.
"I've been a strong supporter of Head Start," Saadi said. "I know early childhood education is key to future success. I see it in my two kids.
"I'm very impressed by the perfect scores, but not just that, by what they do beyond the grading."
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Learners model how the Moon's volcanic period reshaped its earlier features. The children consider that the broad, shallow impact basins contained cracks through which magma seeped up. A plate in which slits have been cut is used to represent an... (View More) impact basin and a dish of red-colored water is used to represent the pockets of magma within the Moon's upper layers. When the model impact basin is pressed into the "magma," "lava" fills in the low areas through the same process that produced the dark patches, or maria, on the Moon. Children may examine a type of Earth rock (named basalt) that is also found on the Moon and that would have been shaped by the processes explored here. This station investigates the Moon's "teen years," when it was one to three billion years old. This activity is part of Explore! Marvel Moon, a series of activities developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
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The 150,000-square-foot warehouse at 2982 Datsun Drive in Whitehaven has been sold to an out-of-town investor for $2 million.
H2O Investments LLC bought the Class B industrial property in a Nov. 25 special warranty deed from Belz Investco GP, an affiliate of Memphis-based Belz Enterprises.
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Built in 1975, the property sits on the east side of Datsun Drive, north of the intersection of East Brooks and Lakeview roads in the Interstate Industrial Park. The Shelby County Assessor of Property, which lists the address as 2900 Datuson, shows a 2013 appraisal of $1.9 million.
Morris I. Thomas of Belz's brokerage services signed the warranty deed as vice president of Urco Inc., managing partner of Belz Investco.
In conjunction with the purchase, H2O Investments filed a $1.2 million deed of trust through Wells Fargo Bank NA. Ronald Norton Berrett and Wenxin Yuan signed the trust deed as managing members of the borrower.
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Memphian Kenny Ford has signed a 1,038-square-foot lease at 2094 Trimble Place for the store, which he is calling The Square Olive.
The Square Olive will offer all things olive oil – from bulk and bottled specialty oils to olive oil-based soaps, hand lotions and pet shampoos.
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For Paragon National Bank, the third quarter was the most profitable in the bank's nearly eight-year history.
Paragon announced the results in recent days, adding that the period marked the bank's 11th straight quarter of profitability and attributing the results to improved asset quality, balance sheet growth, expense reduction and better net interest margin.
Highlights for the quarter included profit of $381,000, which was 40 percent higher than in the second quarter and 8 percent higher than in the third quarter of 2012.
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More than 600 state legislators from across the country gather in Memphis starting Wednesday, Dec. 11, for the four-day annual meeting of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators.
The national group is led by Tennessee State Rep. Joe Armstrong of Knoxville. State Rep. Larry Miller of Memphis is president of the Tennessee caucus to the group.
The conference, being held at The Peabody, is to set legislative priorities for the caucuses in the coming year.
U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez is among the speakers.
Meanwhile, the political action committee Ready For Hillary 2016, which is seeking to draft former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for president, is planning its own event for Wednesday. The Black Americans Strategy Session is slated to be held at the Doubletree Hotel, across Third Street from The Peabody, and will feature some of the legislators in town for The Peabody gathering.
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Clark Tower, owned and managed by In-Rel Properties, is decorating for the holidays in a major way: by being illuminated in green through the end on the first week in January 2014.
All four sides of the landmark East Memphis office tower will be lit from dusk until dawn, using 1,000-watt metal halide bulbs.
"Our colleagues in the Memphis office thought this would be a fun way to take advantage of the size and breadth of Clark Tower and to light up the city during this holiday season," said Mukang Cho, principal and CEO of In-Rel Properties.
The vast majority of business economists believe the Federal Reserve will begin to pull back on its massive economic stimulus program in the first three months of 2014, according to a November survey done by the National Association of Business Economists.
The survey also showed a majority of economists believe the United States' economic recovery will accelerate next year.
NABE surveyed 51 economists between Nov. 8 and Nov. 19 and found that 62 percent of respondents believe the Fed will pull back on its bond-buying program in the first quarter of 2014. Another 30 percent believe the Fed will begin to reduce its bond buying in the second quarter of 2014.
Combined, nine out of 10 economists believe the Fed's stimulus program will wind down next year, after being place in its current form since December 2012.
The Federal Reserve has been buying $85 billion in bonds each month in an effort to keep interest rates low and stimulate the economy. The central bank was widely expected to taper its bond purchases in September, but decided to wait and see more evidence whether the nation's economic recovery is sustainable.
In its survey, NABE said its forecasters expect the U.S. economy will grow faster next year than in 2013. The organization forecasts that the country's economy will grow at a 2.8 percent annual rate in 2014 versus the 2.1 percent annual rate it is expected to grow this year.
Of the forecasters polled by NABE, 73 percent said that the October shutdown likely reduced U.S. economic growth in the fourth quarter by 0.5 percent or less. Fewer than 25 percent of economists believed the shutdown had no impact on the U.S. economy or even helped the U.S. economy.
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One of the largest food supply companies is buying one of its key rivals, creating an even larger, global distribution company.
Sysco is buying privately held US Foods for about $3.5 billion in cash and stock. When the deal closes, Sysco expects the addition of US Foods to boost its annual sales by about 46 percent to around $65 billion.
Houston's Sysco will pay $3 billion in common stock and $500 million in cash. It will also assume or refinance about $4.7 billion in debt. That puts the total value of the deal at about $8.2 billion.
For the fiscal year that ended in June, Sysco's sales totaled $44.41 billion. It trucks food and cooking supplies to about 425,000 customers through 193 locations in the U.S., Bahamas, Canada, Ireland and Northern Ireland.
US Foods' customers include independent and chain restaurants, health care and hospitality companies, and government and educational institutions. Major stakeholders in the company, based just outside of Chicago, in Rosemont, Ill., include Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLC and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP.
The buyout has been approved by the boards of both companies. Sysco said it expects the deal, which is set to close in the third calendar quarter of 2014, to immediately boost its profit after adjusting for acquisition-related costs and expenses. It's also expected to create annual cost savings of at least $600 million after three or four years.
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There's a certain kind of mystery—unsolved and probably insoluble—that has a seductive attraction for me. I think the insolubility is the attraction. Historical and literary mysteries: What was the origin of Hitler's hatred? Did Shakespeare revise Hamlet? And I'm particularly troubled by metaphysical mysteries, the essential but oh-so-slippery mysteries of existence. Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the origin and nature of consciousness? What distinguishes living from nonliving being?
I can't get past the idea that they may never be solved. And what's most irritating is when people seem unaware they have not been solved. Or when people who should know better proclaim there are no real mysteries left. Consider, for instance, the problem of the origin and nature of consciousness. The failure to solve it without resorting to religion or quasi-religious "intelligent design"—which offers no real resolution since it doesn't explain what created the consciousness behind the intelligence of intelligent design—strikes many observers as dangerous. Dangerous because it threatens the foundation of scientific rationalism and materialism. Dangerous because it disrupts one's sense of any order in the universe and opens the floodgates of chaos.
"Consciousness is the only thing in the world and the greatest mystery." This was Martin Amis at recent prepublication celebration of Nabokov's The Original of Laura, at the 92nd Street Y, paraphrasing Nabokov, whose ability to evoke the tenor and texture of consciousness may be one of his most distinctive talents as a writer. Did it come from the fact that Nabokov was gifted with "synesthesia"—itself a mystery of consciousness—which he experienced as the ability to see sounds as sight, as colors? The sound made by the letter "K" for instance, is something he said he experienced as the color of huckleberry. What an extraordinary, colorful spectacle his own words on the page must have been to him. If only we could reproduce it as he saw it.
(By the way, one of the reasons I had reservations about the publication of Laura was that I worried people would review it as a finished book when in fact it was an early draft. What I didn't expect was that people who claimed to share these concerns went ahead and reviewed it as though it were a finished book, gleefully heaping scorn on Nabokov's less well-turned phrases.)
But even for those of us who don't have synesthesia, the pageant, the palette of consciousness is one of life's great unsolved mysteries. I was reminded of the vexing mystery of consciousness a few days before the Nabokov event when I found a link on the valuable Bookforum blog to an essay in the Philosophers' Magazine by Raymond Tallis, a philosopher whose regular critiques of Postmodernism and its metaphysics (especially those of Foucault) I'd admired for some years in the London Times Literary Supplement.
Here, in an essay titled "The Unnatural Selection of Consciousness," Tallis took on what he regards as the overconfident assumptions of some evolutionists, who argue that the problem of the evolution of consciousness will be solved the same way the problems of the evolution of the Panda's thumb or the beak of the finch had been.
Neither Tallis, an atheist, nor I, an agnostic, are anti-evolutionists. I hope science will one day offer an explanation for the emergence of awareness from unconscious matter. I'd like to know how consciousness is preserved, coded, and expressed by the genes, and whether we should then start worrying that consciousness is genetically determined, which therefore implies the impossibility of free will. Not to mention the answer to even more fundamental questions about consciousness, or more accurately awareness: What is it? That is, is it made up of the same elementary particles, the quarks that make up the rest of the universe? If not, what sort of material is it? Where does it exist? If it exists in the mind, is the mind contained in the brain? Does the mind differ from the brain? Is it determined by the brain and thus functionally nonindependent?
I'd be happy if science could explain all that. It would make for a simpler, less annoyingly mysterious world.
For some time, however, I have resigned myself to the so-called "Mysterian" position on this question offered by the Oxford-trained philosopher Colin McGinn, who argued in a illuminating book (melodramatically titled The Mysterious Flame) that we may never find an explanation of consciousness because (to oversimplify a bit) we are trapped within consciousness. One thing the book has going for it is its profound humility before the mystery it confronts.
Tallis takes on the problem from a different angle. He questions whether consciousness can be explained as an evolutionary development. Tallis points out that consciousness remains a mystery even to hard-core evolutionary scientists and cites a passage from the Darwinist/atheist Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker:
"Cumulative selection, once it has begun, seems … powerful enough to make the evolution of intelligence probable, if not inevitable." Seems "powerful enough"? That doesn't sound very scientific. It sounds, in fact, like faith-based overconfidence in science, an admission that we have no answer, just hope that one will develop. Just as many religious types hope for the coming of the Messiah in a fiery apocalypse.
In fact, Dawkins' all-too-casual, almost dismissive language here offers a rare admission of a big open question: the fact that neither he nor his theory has yet to find a scientific explanation of—even to agree on a definition of—consciousness. It always makes me queasy when advocates of science take cheap shots at creationism and intelligent design as if they have All the Answers themselves. I am deeply skeptical about intelligent design, too, but it's important to acknowledge that "our" side doesn't have all the answers, that no matter how much we know, mysteries remain. Someday, science may well explain how a random mutation resulted in consciousness where none had been before.
Tallis is particularly good on the old argument about the evolution of the eye. He doesn't say that the human eye could never have been achieved through evolution because of its "irreducible complexity," as the intelligent-design advocates do. Rather, he points out the difference between explaining the development of a complex and sensitive means for registering the visual world and explaining the nature, location, and stuff of visual awareness:
Firstly, chemical or electrochemical sensitivity to light is not the same as awareness of light. Secondly, the content of awareness of light—brightness, color, never mind beauty or meaning—is not to be found in electromagnetic radiation, which is not intrinsically bright, colored, beautiful or meaningful. These secondary and tertiary qualities are not properties of the physical world and the energy in question. Thirdly, it is not clear how certain organizations of matter manage to be aware—of impingements of energy, and later of objects, and (in the case of humans) of themselves—when very similar organizations of matter do not have this property. This problem is more evident much further down the evolutionary path, when we look at neurons that are, and those that are not, associated with consciousness in the human brain and see how little distinguishes them. The biological story of the evolution of the eye from single cells to full-blown eyes tells us nothing about the journey from light incident on photosensitive cells, producing a programmed response, to the gaze that looks out and sees, and peers at, and inquires into, a visible world. …
Computers, after all, do not get any nearer to being conscious as the inputs are more complexly related to their outputs, however many stages and layers of processing intervene between the two. There is nothing, in short, that will explain why matter in a certain form will go "mental".
I disagree with Tallis on at least one point. He insists that consciousness must have an adaptive evolutionary explanation. And indeed human consciousness may at first have been adaptive. But adaptive functions can go awry, as when a species' reproductive capacity outstrips its food supply. And if you look at the last century in terms of war and slaughter and genocide, you have to wonder whether the more violent tendencies of consciousness are turning out to be maladaptive. Otherwise, why would we consciously place our species in danger of extinction through a Faustian bargain with nuclear physics?
Like Tallis, Colin McGinn is particularly good in condemning materialist explanations of consciousness, pointing out that it's impossible to collapse the mind into the brain. Or, as he puts it: "[T]he mind is … meat neither more nor less." To the materialist the feeling of "pain, for example, is nothing more than a firing of certain fibers in the brain. The feeling of pain simply reduces to such physical processes. The two are not merely correlated; they are identical." To the materialist, Mr. McGinn continues, "the mind is the brain in disguise. The djinn is the lamp."
He goes on to point out that he could hypothetically "know everything about your brain of a neural kind … its anatomy, its chemical ingredients, the pattern of electrical activity in its various segments … the position of every atom and its subatomic structure … everything that that materialist says your mind is. Do I thereby know everything about your mind? It certainly seems not. On the contrary, I know nothing about your mind. I know nothing about which conscious states you are in … and what these states feel like to you..."
If they are not, if in fact consciousness is an instance of dualism—of the mind being somehow different, not identical with the brain—of what then is the nonmaterial "stuff" of consciousness, the "self" and all that, made? Philosophers tie themselves into knots seeking to resolve these questions. (Thomas Nagel's review of Galen Strawson's new book, Selves:An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics, in the London Review of Books is a particularly good display of the incredible difficulties of the problem, although my favorite recent book on the subject is the brief but cogent Seeing Redby Nicholas Humphrey.)
Another acute critic of the pure materialist theory of consciousness is the mathematician and philosopher David Berlinski, whose impressively argued critique of scientific certainty on the subject can be found in his new book, The Devil's Delusion.Berlinski has suffered—unfairly, I think—from the fact that his work often appears in the pages of a religiously-oriented publication (Commentary) and from the suspicion that he has some hidden creationist or intelligent-design agenda. Which he explicitly disclaims. Berlinski is scrupulous not to suggest that he has the answer or that God is the answer or any of that. He just doesn't think, when it comes to the evolution of "awareness," that anybody has All the Answers. Or any of them.
McGinn and Tallis and Berlinski: the mysterians! "Metaphysical heretics" might be more dignified, but I like the fact that from Mysterians take the name from the '60s one-hit-wonder rock group Question Mark and the Mysterians, best known for "96 Tears," which became a seminal influence on punk and No Wave later on. They've got what you might call a philosophical version of a punk rock attitude toward on these questions, a disdain for the nobs who sit on their fat certainties. I consider them heroic for entertaining heresies that dismay the religious and the irreligious, both of whom claim too much.
It's a difficult place to be, not knowing whether one can know the answer to the deepest mysteries. I think David Foster Wallace—particularly in his book on infinity—felt this acutely. He was a Mysterian. Hamlet was: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy," he says. (At least, that's how it appears in the Quarto of the play; in the Folio it's "in our philosophy." Did Shakespeare revise? We still don't know.) Nabokov: I don't see him as a Mysterian. I think he saw it all like Milton's God did, spread out in space and time before him. He wasn't a Mysterian because "it" wasn't a mystery to him. Part of what is intriguing about his work is the way you get glimpses of his vision, his metaphysical synesthesia.
When I say the mystery of consciousness is a dangerous one, what I mean is that nobody wants to admit they don't have things All Figured Out, and it's particularly destabilizing not figuring yourself out. Where do my thoughts come from? Are they determined by my biochemistry? Is my reaction to this column the product of free will?
If I had the time, I would establish an international Mysterian society for those who recognize that the universe is still a profoundly mysterious place and yet don't want to be alone thinking dark thoughts about it. That's really all I want to do. It bothers me. I want it to bother others, too.
The same goes for the other two primordial unanswered questions on the borderline of physics and metaphysics:
First: Why is there something rather than nothing? And second: What exactly is the crucial difference between nonliving and living entities?
Ever since Stephen Hawking's bookA Brief History of Time became a best-seller (and despite the fact he now admits he was wrong about his entire theory of black holes in that book), many physicists would have us believe that string theory (or "m-theory," as it's now most fashionably called) explains why there is something rather than nothing. One of the latest fashionable theories of why there is something rather than nothing is called "quantum tunneling," which seems to posit that being came into being by means of insubstantial equations or "quantum fluctuations in a vacuum." Sorry, guys, but if there are fluctuations in it, then there's Something in it, already. It's not Nothing, if you see what I mean. Jim Holt does a great job discrediting quantum tunneling and other such something-from-nothing quantum theory dodges in this podcast interview. Holt is writing a whole book about the attempts, so far futile, to solve the Something/Nothing question.
The final Big Three Unsolved Mystery: pinpointing the very beginning of life. I'm satisfied Darwinian theory can explain everything from the evolution of the very first "living" entity from a single cell to Nabokov. But I have yet to see any persuasive explanation of the jump from no life to life and how it came about. Please don't refer me to that discredited old chestnut of an experiment in which an electric current was run through a soup of organic molecules and some amino acids were found. Amino acids are chemicals, not life, and ceaseless attempts to create life—to manipulate those amino acids in such a way that they start replicating and evolving in a beaker in one way or another—have failed, as Berlinski painstakingly demonstrated.
It seems to me that people should care more that these questions are not answered. Or stop living in denial, thinking they have been. I don't think religion has the answers, but I don't think science does either. Yet. Whether it ever will is the fourth great mystery.


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Josh Horowitz '10 works as general counsel for San Francisco startup Crowdtilt, which provides online fundraising solutions for everything from a camping trip, to a mayoral campaign, to reward-based crowdfunding.
After becoming an attorney in the Bay Area's booming tech scene, Horowitz worked on a startup of his own and also began giving back to UC Hastings by helping create the Institute for Innovation Law. We asked him about working in the startup scene and where UC Hastings fits into that world.
How did you start out on this path?
I came into law school wanting to be a private attorney servicing international transactions. It wasn't until I heard that UC Hastings started an intellectual property concentration that a longtime interest of mine around innovation and the startup industry was rekindled. I changed my plans immediately; I mean that second. I then completed the concentration in my third year, and took a number of venture capital law, corporate law, and entrepreneurship-related courses.
What inspired you to help start the Institute for Innovation Law?
UC Hastings has a reputation for training attorneys who graduate ready to hit the ground running. But the school hadn't developed real-world experience opportunities for transactional law or startups. So in my third year of law school, I invested roughly 150 hours researching how to start and operate a transactional legal clinic for startups. Along the way, I crossed paths with Professor Robin Feldman, who was doing something similar with life science companies. After sharing notes, we decided to work together to build out a transactional program for UC Hastings students. Our effort with the Law and Bioscience (LAB) Project grew into what is now the Institute for Innovation Law.
Tell us how you started at Crowdtilt and what you do.
After my first attempt at a startup failed, I launched my own legal practice, called EmCom Law. It stands for Emerging Company Law. Over time, I serviced a number of Y Combinator companies. Through a chance encounter, I met Crowdtilt. After working with both co-founders and various employees there, I was offered an in-house position, a seat on the rocket ship.
I view my role as enabling the company to grow as quickly as possible, while informing management of the legal and operational risks involved with their decisions. As we launch new or improved products, and enter new markets, I help keep the organization running compliantly and evolve its legal approaches.
How is the startup culture different?
When I worked as a summer associate at a large firm, I wore a button-down shirt and slacks. I had a nice office, and I ate lunch at my desk. My colleagues were all attorneys, and you could ask them for help for free. The culture couldn't be more different at a startup.
At Crowdtilt, none of my colleagues is an attorney. When I have a legal question, I either research it on my own, refer to summarizing publications from firms, talk to colleagues, or pay for outside counsel. In terms of attire, I sit right next to our growth team, and I'm in jeans, a T-shirt, and sometimes flip-flops, just like them. I report to our CEO, who is in his 20s, like me, but work directly with all leaders at the company.
Do you think working in the startup world has allowed you to advance your career faster?
People who work at a startup early in their career will get more exposure and experience than they would in a traditional corporate law firm. A startup exposes you to everything that is happening and gives you management authority over it all. In a traditional corporate law firm, the type of work assigned to a new associate is sometimes important, but it can be repetitive.
What skills are important to the new breed of startup attorney?
Relevant skills include management, negotiation, judgment, and financial literacy skills. Having a background relevant to the industry in which you are working can be seen as required or merely helpful, depending on your role on the legal team. Lastly, a critical factor involves attitude and character. Fundamentals include integrity, being positive, a problem-solving mentality, and being passionate about what you and your client do.
Read more from UC Hastings magazine, The Enterprise Issue, here.


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The Oakland Unified School District failed to follow federal regulations in doling out taxpayer money to benefit local private schools and must pay some of it back, a state review has found.
The state Department of Education cited Oakland Unified for not meeting federal requirements in its distribution of federal Title I and Title II money to provide teacher training and tutoring for struggling students at private schools. Private schools are entitled to a share of federal money, but public school districts are responsible for maintaining control of the funds.
The state found that Oakland Unified paid instructors who were not independent of their private schools, shipped materials directly to the private schools without taking an inventory and let private schools design their own taxpayer-funded programs.
State officials expedited the review, originally planned for January, after California Watch reported that the district had paid officials at St. Andrew Missionary Baptist Church's private school based on padded enrollment numbers. The West Oakland K-12 school also has come under fire for making its students solicit money at BART stations and for the alleged physical abuse of students, which the school has denied.
Oakland Unified is asking for more time to resolve the state's findings of noncompliance, said spokesman Troy Flint.
"Normally, you would have had a longer timeframe ... to make sure you have all your ducks in a row," Flint said. "We didn't have that. Working in a more compressed timeframe was a challenge for us."
School board member Noel Gallo, who has pushed for more oversight of the funding, said he will work to "address publicly the corrections that we have made and be able to monitor that on an ongoing basis."
School districts are allowed to use the federal money to pay private school teachers to provide services like additional tutoring, but the teachers must be independent of the private schools.
The education department's review stated that Oakland Unified inappropriately paid $21,000 to a St. Andrew teacher who was not independent of the family-run school and that the district must "recover" those funds.
If the district is at fault for the problem, Flint said, it will have to compensate the federal program with other district money.
The report also cited the district for hiring the administrator of a Nation of Islam-affiliated K-12 school, Muhammad University of Islam, to provide services at her own school.
Flint said the district has "philosophical differences" with the California Department of Education over its interpretation of the law.
"We had a differing interpretation, but obviously, we're compelled to follow the judgment of the CDE and we'll do that," he said. "But we just want to make sure that we have clarity on what the parameters are."
Some private schools have objected to the requirements now being enforced by state officials, he said.
"Because there's been more scrutiny as a result of the investigation related to St. Andrew, I guess they feel that some autonomy has been compromised," he said. "The district, the state and the private schools need to reach a common understanding so that everyone can be satisfied that the law's being upheld."
The state review also singled out $3,600 in inappropriate payments to Robert Lacy Jr., a St. Andrew teacher whose father runs the school and church. The district had paid Lacy $100 per hour to repair computers for student use in October 2011 and again in March of this year. The Department of Education's report directed the district to reimburse the federal program from another funding source.
In earlier interviews with California Watch, several former students said Lacy would hit, kick and throw things at students and rarely let them use the computers. School officials have denied all allegations of abuse.
Earlier this year, Oakland Unified decided to cut off federal funds to St. Andrew. After California Watch's investigation, the district determined that the school did inflate enrollment figures, which are used to allocate the funding.
The district also added two staff members to oversee the funds and required more visits to private schools to better monitor the use of the money.
"I think that should address a lot of the concerns that the state has," Flint said. "We can get beyond this and move our attention to our true emphasis, which is Oakland public school students."
Will Evans is an investigative reporter for California Watch, a project of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting. Find more California Watch stories here.


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The newest surgical option for localized kidney cancer – using robotic technology to remove the tumor and spare the kidney – is featured in a Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center webcast.
The webcast features Ashok K. Hemal, MD, MCh, professor of Urology, performing robot-assisted, kidney-sparing surgery on a 48-year-old man with kidney cancer.
"Kidney function is closely linked to overall health and life expectancy," said Hemal, who specializes in treating cancer of the prostate, kidney and bladder with robotic and laparoscopic surgery. "In the past it was common to remove the entire kidney and the adrenal gland in cases of localized kidney cancer. But today, we work to preserve the part of the kidney unaffected by cancer."
Most cases of kidney cancer are diagnosed in people over age 50 and involve tumors originating in the lining of small tubes in the kidney that filter the blood and remove waste products. There are often no symptoms, but when symptoms do occur, they can include blood in the urine, back or flank pain, weight loss and anemia. Because of the increasing frequency of diagnostic procedures today, many cases of kidney cancer are discovered when doctors are looking for something else, such as gallbladder problems. That means most cases of kidney cancer are found early, before the cancer has spread.
Early detection also allows surgeons to remove the tumor and spare healthy kidney tissue, which sharply decreases the risks for long-term kidney failure or impairment and improves overall survival. It has also been shown to decrease the risks of heart attacks, strokes, hypertension, diabetes and the need for dialysis or transplant.
Hemal explained that kidney-sparing surgery originated when the only surgical option was a traditional operation with a large incision. Newer, minimally invasive surgical options have been developed, such as laparoscopic surgery and robot-assisted surgery, which require only small incisions and reduce recovery times. However, these minimally invasive procedures are more technically challenging when it comes to kidney-sparing surgery, so are offered primarily at high-volume centers.
"Benefits of the minimally invasive approaches include less pain and blood loss, a shorter hospital stay, and a quicker return to work and other activities," said Hemal. "Most patients are back to their normal routines within two weeks."
Wake Forest Baptist urologic surgeons offer renal sparing surgery whenever possible and generally perform these operations with robotic technology.
With robot-assisted surgery, the surgeon controls four "arms" that have centimeter-size instruments attached. The tiny instruments – as well as the ability to see the surgical site at 15-fold magnification on a screen – allow for very precise, refined movements. Hemal said the three-dimensional view, precision and dexterity allow an experienced surgeon to use the technology for kidney-sparing procedures.
"Robot-assisted surgery offers the best of both worlds," said Hemal. "It offers patients the benefits of minimally invasive surgery and allows their healthy kidney tissue to be spared."
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